And he's working on an electric version lol.

I doubt any nuclear shield can do much against boomers close to the coast. If Russia wanted to destroy New York and LA I doubt any shield would be able to stop them.

Who says there are too many cars lol? The people who do not like cars? No one listens to them. Most drivers think the issue is too many cyclists and buses, also called moving roadblocks.

> Lithium mining for one is far more destructive than any other traditional mining.

Really? Are you sure about that? Maybe you need to expand a bit more.

Fortunately, you will not have to wait very long then.

Next week?

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-new-invites-semi-delivery-event/

> When we've seem gas prices which are the equipment of $500/barrel of oil, I highly doubt it'll be cheaper to run.

Solar + batteries provide a natural price cap.

I really support this idea. The pantographs can be retro-fitted for only a few thousand $, and can be used with both hybrid and electric trucks, and would obviously pay for itself in reduced fuel fees, so I feel this is a system which could easily be rolled out piecemeal, starting on major highways.

EU also apparently.

Well, solar will mean decentralized power, so it would be more like homesteading than building cities.

The more land you have, the fewer utilities you need. You could easily live off-grid.

Tony Seba has a recent series about this, and he said that precision fermentation will make animal farming and its supporting agriculture obsolete, freeing up 2.7 billion hectares of farming land for other uses such as habitation.

Combines with the renewable energy revolution, he believes the Great Transformation will deliver the American dream of cheap land, cheap energy, cheap food and cheap connectivity for only $250 per month, making poverty a societal choice.

It will also massively slash our carbon footprint by 95% in the 2030s and make us carbon negative in the 2040s.

See those episodes at the links here.

The Great Transformation [Part 4] - The #Disruption of #Food & #Agriculture

The Great Transformation [Part 5] - The conclusion

The good news is that they will be building this SPS from the same capsules they would normally be discarding.

I assume with the source so concentrated (the outlet in their picture), this would be an ideal use case.

> We can’t build out of wood,

Why?

I am surprised the article did not mention carbon capture more, especially since the industry expects it to make the largest contribution on their roadmap to net zero.

You understand -ve growth means sales are going down, right?

> Tesla sells over 300k cars per year.

I mean, you are technically correct.

Tesla sold 935,000 cars in 2021 and is on track for around 1.3 million in 2022.

Note BMW only sold 2.2 million cars in 2021.

I would define a million per year as definitely mass production. I think less than 100K is definitely not.

There is a difference between making a few EVs and being able to mass-produce them, particularly if they are unprofitable and your ICE car sales are in freefall.

> you'd be paying a ton of VAT etc. on the solar panels

Solar panels are either 0% of 5% VAT.

And you can charge an EV from any 3-pin plug overnight at least enough for your daily commute.

Global car sales have definitely peaked, and this was well before the pandemic.

On top of that the biggest car market is China, and they have gone 30% EV. I would say ICE has definitely peaked, so any company which is not committed to EVs (e.g. Toyota, Stellantis) are going to go bankrupt in the near future.

Well, that is the Fermi paradox, isnt it?

On a more expansive level, if space-based civilizations are possible, why don't we see the mark of their activity in the universe?

The possible solutions are varied, but one of the answers we are the first high-technology civilization in our patch of the universe, but other solutions are darker, including that no technological civilizations survive long enough to spread to the stars (or create ASI for example).

In 2021, China's public road passenger turnover has reached about 363 billion passenger kilometers

61% of commercial traffic is via road in 2021.

Here is real progress lol.

> How much carbon will be released every year .... to remove sodium from sea water?

If this is the quality of your argument, I just don't know lol.

Firstly,

> Sodium batteries have a lower energy density, and degrade faster than lithium for the same voltage. They are also not ready for retail markets nor mass production, as the tech isn't ready yet.

Sodium batteries are already on sale, and CATL, one of the largest battery manufacturers, are putting them in production for cars next year. In the mean time they are perfectly fine for stationary applications.

>> Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. plans to start mass production of its sodium-ion batteries next year, according to an exchange filing. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-10-25/catl-aims-to-mass-produce-sodium-ion-batteries-in-2023-101955814.html

Secondly:

> Suburbs are absolutely terrible for the environment, with individuals who live there producing twice the average carbon a year, whereas a person living in a dense city uses about 50% less.

Apparently its closer to 25% less which is not a massive amount, and can be easily cancelled out by adding solar to your home.

It's as if you did not read the article for the thread. People who live in suburbs will have easy access to home solar, which means their carbon footprint will be lower than people in dense housing. They will also have easier access to EVs as they will have off-street parking for charging. They will be earlier adopters of EVs and solar for that reason, which will mean their carbon footprint will drop a lot faster than inner city dwellers.

> Removing gas engines and replacing them with EVs isn't the solution, the solution is to remove the need for a car at all. We now know tires produce significant pollution themselves, in 2017 the manufacturing alone (US only) produced 3.5 million metric tons of Co2, roughly equivalent to the Congos entire footprint. They are also the second largest polluter of microplastics, a substance whose long term effects we know little about, but there is correlation to a decreasing fertility rate, at least in men.

I am sure you are a proponent of active travel. Do you have any idea how much rubber is released from the soles of shoes? 300 million shoes are discarded in USA each year, and if people walk much more than number will double or triple, releasing huge amounts of micro-particles into the air and microplastics into the environment as they decompose.

> So how about instead of building sprawling cities that rely on cars, we build them so people can walk, bike, or take a train or bus to significantly reduce their footprint.

How about instead of building dense housing, we aim for energy independence and a low carbon footprint.

> How much carbon will be released every year strip mining the lithium and sodium out of the ground, or how much to remove sodium from sea water? How long will it take to power the entire planet with total renewables, will this be soon enough to make an impact? We have nuclear now, we have fully functional and super carbon efficient transportation now. Why wait another 20 years for a problem we can work against now?

This whole paragraph is nonsense really. These are not hypothetical questions. We know the carbon payback time for large evs is a year or two of driving. We know we are making massive progress with switching to renewables. We know that nuclear has stalled due to expense and other risks.

In short, the world is on the right track - get on the winning side.

> Solar and wind will require massive amounts of batteries or other storage devices to work, and there won't be enough lithium to power every single country once everyone modernizes.

We can just use sodium batteries.

> City redesign.

You don't think re-designing fully cities is not going to release a lot of carbon and take forever? This article shows living in denser housing is a mistake, as it reduces your access to solar and EV benefits.

This is a lie. Panels are normally warranted for 25 years. Why are you lying?